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Claire Andrade-Watkins Named One of GoProvidence’s Greatest Living Rhode Islanders – 2023 Version
Friday, July 07, 2023 PROVIDENCE RI Those bigger-than-life leaders – like political titans Bruce Sundlun, John Chafee, and Claiborne Pell are not easy to replace. And, some ot our most talented individuals have moved out ot Rhode island and are now living and workIng elsewhere, pursuing their amazing careers. They are no longer connected to…
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CENA 2023 Festival of films directed by women of the Africana/Cape Verdean Diaspora
CENA 2023 Festival of films directed by women of the Africana/Cape Verdean Diaspora May 11,12 13, 2023, PRAIA, CABO VERDE Fidjus di Terra: Nos Ku Nos, Producer/Director, Claire Andrade-Watkins( 2021, 1 hour 6 min) A surprising and touching celebration of Fidjus di Terra from Maputo, Mozambique, and Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island, connecting across oceans…
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Cecelia “Dottie” Dorothy Ramos
Other news! Cecelia, Dorothy, affectionately known as ‘Dottie’ Ramos, who resided in North Providence, RI, peacefully departed this life on Christmas Day, December 25th, 2022, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. More >
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March 2023 – SKoFPR
NEWS Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American Story (59-minute version) PEG RI TV MARCH 2023 • Providence Area (North Providence and Providence) – Cox 18/Verizon 38 – Sunday, March 5, 12, 19, 26 at 8 PM • Statewide, including the local area above – Cox 13/Verizon 32 – Tuesday, March 7, 14, 21,…
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10th anniversary of the 2013 Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory
10th anniversary of the 2013 Masters of the Craft: Gallery of Memory exhibit, PVD City Hall, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of Local 1329 of the I.L.A.
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16th anniversary of the 2007 premiere of SKFPR
FESPACO From the first FESPACO I attended in 1985, it was my dream to return to FESPACO as director of OUR story.TWENTY-TWO years later, the dream came true!! The FIRST feature of a CV American woman director filmmaker to premiere at FESPACO.
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Route 195
AUGUST 11, 2022 ‘Traumatic’: How Route 195 uprooted the Cape Verdean community in Providence’s Fox Point Like so many highway projects that cut through America mid-century inthe name of progress, Route 195 has left a scar in Rhode Island. Cecelia “Dottie” Dorothy Ramos obituary > Download PDF version
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Sankofa: A Celebration
FEBRUARY 22, 2022 Looking Back, Moving Forward Through Black Cinema Claire Andrade-Watkins and the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies hosted a special screening and virtual celebration of the film for the Emerson community, featuring a panel of scholars, digital archivists, and librarians. Watch “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?”: A Cape Verdean American…
